Since I apparently can post stuff i'm using for assignments online, I decided to post this. It's still a work in progress, and I probably won't post the finished version, but I figured some poeple might be interested in reading this version of it.

[u]Angel in the Street[/u]

In darkest urban place
glowing like starshine,
distant radiance
masked by depths of pain.

In the park she cursed
her world and screamed
silently at a life that
cared not for her dreams.

In the street alone she
flowed through heaving crowds,
hating shop fronts and posters;
mortal traps for mundane minds.

A shadow she became,
an after-image fleeting
on the edge of vision and
the shape taking the seat.

Beneath cells and flaring
nerves she claimed to be
queen of a brighter place,
not a realm of grey.

They would-be angel
with her bitter heart
burning at what is not,
and she hurts.